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READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC

READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,031 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$39k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Reading League Wisconsin Inc does

Mission

We provide professional development in reading.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Presentation of hybrid in-person and live stream conference with nationally recognized speakers; 390 attended in person and 100 attended via live stream.

    $40,646 spent
    98% of program spending
  2. Presentation of 7 virtual professional development webinars with state and national experts; synchronous attendance 250, asynchronous attendance 5,700

    $500 spent
    1% of program spending
  3. 6-session virtual book study of Teaching Words and How They Work. Synchronous attendance 75, asynchronous attendance 500

    $156 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Presentation on the science of reading to Wisconsin Valley Library System Total attendance 35

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,302.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($80k)2024 Revenue 4 ($3k) Expenses 85 ($45k) Net assets 48 ($39k)
20232024
Revenue (4)Expenses (85)Net assets (48)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $80k to $39k (−52%).

$80k
$39k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

37% of READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’23
−$42k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $21.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC's revenue fell 96% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin−1335% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−96% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC?
READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,031 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,031 in grants to READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like READING LEAGUE WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing